Minister Peshekhonov spoke much fine and lofty talk in his speech: about how "we should distribute what we have equally," and about how "the resistance of capitalists appears to be broken," and much of the like.

But he cited only one precise figure. Only one exact fact is indicated in his speech, and six lines out of eight columns of the speech are devoted to it. Here is this fact: nails are released from factories at 20 kopecks per pound, but reach the population at 2 rubles per pound.

Could it not be, if "the resistance of capitalists is broken," to pass a law on publication of: 1) all guarantee letters concerning prices on deliveries? 2) all prices on deliveries to the treasury in general? 3) the cost price of products supplied to the treasury? 4) could it not be made possible for workers' organizations to verify all such facts?

*Pravda* No. 76, June 21 (8), 1917

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